John Miguel, a Mountain View firefighter, led the clean-up effort on Frances Stieper’s property, which
the city has bought and to use as a park.

New city property a future ‘food forest’?
By Daniel DeBolt

I

t may be hard to imagine walking into a park
in the heart of Silicon Valley and being able
to eat freely from an abundance of fruit trees
— but that may soon become a reality with the
city’s purchase of a lush, one-acre property on
North Rengstorff Avenue.
When the City Council recently approved the
$3 million purchase of the land at 771 North
Rengstorff, it may have unwittingly set the city
on a course to have one of the first “food forests”
in the region.

While the city’s planning process has yet
to begin for the property, its numerous fruit
trees may very well be saved if the City Council
decides to stick to its goal this year of maintaining the city’s tree canopy. Cities around the
world are beginning to see the value of using
park space to grow orchards, vegetable gardens
and berry patches, turning parks into sources
of food free for the taking. The largest example
is in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, where
residents will soon be able to forage from 7-acres
See CITY PROPERTY, page 7

rian Fiorino and Duke
Khuu say they are elated to know that their
daughter will be born into a
world where her parents have
the same legal rights as heterosexual married couples.
The Mountain View couple
expressed excitement over two
Supreme Court rulings handed
down Wednesday, June 26,
which reversed California’s
controversial Proposition 8
and overturned a key provision
in the federal Defense of Marriage Act that denied certain
rights to same-sex married
couples.
“It’s a great day for us,”
Khuu, who runs a dermatology
practice on Castro Street, told
the Voice. “We’re very pleased.
We’ve been waiting for a very
long time.”
According to Fiorino, he and
Khuu have considered themselves
married for many years, but they
haven’t been able to officially and
legally tie the knot. That should
change in short order.
Fiorino, a lawyer, said that he
expects they may have to wait
for a bit longer for the official
order to come down and the
marriage licenses to be made
available.

FILE PHOTO

Duke Khuu and Brian Fiorino
have been waiting for years to get
married.

The decision comes at an
especially exciting time for the
couple, who after a number of
tries are expecting a baby girl.
Their daughter is being carried
by a surrogate and is due in
December. “Baby girl is going
to be born into a world where
her parents can be married,”
Fiorino said.
When it’s all said and done,
Fiorino said the ruling won’t
change much about he and
Khuu’s day-to-day lives. “PerSee GAY MARRIAGE, page 9

Union janitors to return to City Hall, but with less pay
By Daniel DeBolt

T

he janitors who lost their
jobs cleaning the city’s
buildings this year may be
rehired by a surprisingly cheap
union contractor this summer.
City Council members on Tuesaday declined to require that their
wages and benefits be restored.
The council was asked to
weigh in on the issue of pay after
janitors picketed City Hall in

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November. After a fallout with
the previous contractor, GCA,
over the city’s willingness to
pay for rising healthcare costs,
the city had switched temporarily to a non-union janitorial
services contractor, IMS, which
significantly cut pay and hours,
and eliminated healthcare benefits for the five city janitors it
rehired.
One city janitor told the council on Tuesday that the cuts

felt like “a slap in the face” and
asked members to “correct these
wrongs that have been to me and
others that have kept your buildings clean for 10 years.”
“I am proud of my work here,”
she said. “Please respect our hard
work.”
Voting 5-1, council members
passed a motion to hire a janitorial services contractor within
a year or two. Mayor John Inks
was opposed and member Mike

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Kasperzak was absent.
The city may hire a unionorganized janitorial service even
sooner, as city officials mull over
seven bids for a new janitorial
services contract to be awarded
in July. Three of the seven bidding contractors are union and
provide health benefits.
At least initially, using a union
contractor doesn’t cost more
than a non-union contractor,
city officials said. Five of the

seven bidders said costs for the
city would not change to comply
with a Service Employee’s International Union contract for Bay
Area janitors. Six of the seven
bidders have higher minimum
wages than the lowest rung on
the SEIU’s Bay Area pay scale for
janitors, which pays first-year
janitors $8.50 an hour.
Council members declined a
See UNION JANITORS, page 14

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A man was arrested on June 22 for allegedly punching a Mountain View drugstore clerk who tried to stop him as he attempted
to make off with a bag of candy.
Mountain View police arrested Robert Golden, a 70-year-old
transient, who they believe punched a clerk at the CVS at 2630 W.
El Camino Real.
According to the police report, Golden entered the CVS around
1:58 a.m. on June 22, grabbed a bag of M&M’s candy and tried to
walk out without paying. The clerk tried to stop him and Golden
punched him.
Police found Golden at a nearby bus stop and arrested him for
robbery, because he had used force to steal the candy. He was
booked into county jail.
The clerk was not badly hurt and required no medical attention.

POT BUST
A Mountain View man was recently arrested on suspicion
possessing marijuana for sale after police found more than two
pounds of pot — along with several grams of a “concentrated
cannabis,” $1,000 in cash and all the necessary components
needed to manufacture a substance known as “honey oil.” A .22
rifle was also found.
According to a post on the Mountain View Police Department’s
blog, the department’s Crime Suppression Unit arrested Stuart
Keith on the 700 block of San Pierre Way after getting a search
warrant. Keith was arrested without incident and booked into the
main county jail.
A spokeswoman with the police said many details surrounding
the arrest could not be made public because the investigation is
still ongoing.
The MVPD’s blog post does not indicate what special components Keith allegedly had in his possession, but it did note that
honey oil is made by extracting cannabis oil and THC — one of
pot’s active ingredients.
According to the website CannabisCulture.com, so-called
honey oil is made by exposing ground marijuana to butane,
which acts as a solvent to strip the oils and THC out of the plant.
That oil can then be smoked.
—Mountain View Voice staff

the other at McKelvey Park in
anta Clara County supervi- Mountain View. The project
sors sealed the deal Tues- is designed to prevent damage
day on a massive project from a 100-year flood, a severe
designed to protect 2,720 Moun- event that has a 1 percent chance
tain View properties in the event of happening every year. Such a
of a 100-year flood of Permanen- flood is not known to have hapte Creek, but the approval didn’t pened since Mountain View was
come without questions about developed.
the legitimacy of the project.
It would also allow hundreds of
Engineer Richard Moll, who residents to go without paying for
lives in the area and scrutinized flood insurance and put $9 milthe project, told the board on lion toward constructing a new
June 25, “I believe approval of the neighborhood park and baseball
basin at San Antonio should be fields at McKelvey Park.
delayed until significant techni“I think your credibility would
cal issues are resolved.”
be greater on this issue if there
The board approved a 15-foot hadn’t been other sites that were
deep basin for
previously suggestRancho San Antoed or recommendnio, which replaces
ed or identified as
‘I’ve had
a parking lot near
being essential to
the Hammondmore than a the project, which
Snyder trail. The
were then removed,
little healthy as I understand
trail will be closed
during construcit,” Simitian told
skepticism
tion next summer
water district repreas it runs through
He was
about the water sentatives.
the basin site.
referring to a preJoe Simitian, the
vious proposal for
district.’
north county repfour flood basins,
SUPERVISOR JOE SIMITIAN
resentative on the
including ones at
Board of SuperBlach Middle School
visors, proposed
in Los Altos and
postponing approval for six the Cuesta Annex in Mountain
weeks to allow more study, which View. He asked if that was a “fair
water district officials said could analysis.”
delay construction for a year.
“It’s unfair, I think, because
“At the risk of stating what there was one time when the
is perhaps fairly well known, I hydrology for the project was
must say over the years I’ve had updated in 2010. And based
more than a little healthy skepti- on that hydrology update, the
cism about the water district,” proposed project was changed,”
Simitian said. “So I’m a little said Afshin Rouhani, the water
frustrated to be sitting here at district engineer on the project
the end of this lengthy process since 2002. “So that was a onewith twelfth hour concerns and time change. Projects, during
a front page story in the Moun- the design phase, you study them
tain View Voice on the topic,” in far greater detail than during
he said, referring to last week’s planning. So it’s not unusual
article about local civil engineer for there to be changes to the
Jerry Clements’ claims that the proposed project, you know,
project would be unnecessary if through the process.”
a restriction were removed from
“It’s absolutely true that origia diversion channel behind Blach nally there was going to be four
School.
detention basins. Now we think
The Santa Clara Valley Water the (project’s goals) can be met
District has already spent $15 with two,” he said.
million designing the project and
Moll said the proposed Ranwould spend another $34 million cho basin may be almost twice
building it, much of which goes as big as it needs to be. He cited
toward digging two flood basins,
See FLOOD PROTECTION, page 13
one at Rancho San Antonio and

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SOFIA BIROS

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS
Six-year-old Yuritzia runs to get her kite aloft at the Shoreline Family Kite Day on Sunday, June 23. The
first 100 people received free kites at the event, which included a miniature kite display, expert kite
demonstrations and kite-making activities. For more photos from Kite Day, see page 11.

Marching band to earn P.E. credits
BAND AND COLOR GUARD STUDENTS CAN TRADE GYM SHORTS FOR UNIFORMS
By Nick Veronin

M

embers of the local
high schools’ marching
bands and color guards
will be able to earn physical education credit for participating —
but only during their sophomore,
junior and senior years.
Despite opposition from physical education teachers at Mountain View and Los Altos high
schools, the district’s board of
trustees unanimously approved
the change to district bylaws at
its June 17 meeting.
At two prior meetings of
the Mountain View-Los Altos
Union High School District’s
board, P.E. instructors spoke out
against the proposal, which was
brought before the board by Gaye
Heck, co-president of the Los
Altos High School Instrumental

Music Boosters, and Bill Heye,
president of the Mountain View
High School Instrumental Music
Parents Association.

The policy puts
marching band and
color guard in line
with other extra
curricular physical
activities.
While representatives from
both schools’ P.E. departments
readily conceded that marching
band and color guard require a
high degree of physicality, they
insisted the activities did not

offer the same educational component students get by taking a
P.E. class.
In weeks before the vote, Barbara Kaufman, physical education department coordinator
and teacher at MVHS, told the
Voice she felt the proposal was
somewhat insulting. “I get really
upset when people ... think they
are providing physical education, when they are just providing
physical activity,” Kaufman said.
Heck and Heye made it clear
that they were not trying to
demean P.E. teachers with their
proposal. They said changing the
district policy to allow marching
band and color guard participants to get P.E. credit will free
those students’ schedules to take
more electives. They could even
See P.E. CREDITS, page 14

District approves plans for middle schools
CRITTENDEN, GRAHAM SLATED FOR BIG IMPROVEMENTS,
INCLUDING NEW AUDITORIUMS
By Nick Veronin

T

he Mountain View Whisman School District will
be moving forward on
major projects at both of its
middle schools.
At its June 20 meeting, the
board of trustees approved
the schematic design plans for
modernizing both Graham and
Crittenden middle schools.
With a total budget of $50
million across both schools,
the plans call for modernizing classrooms, constructing a
new library at Graham, modernizing Crittendenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s library,
putting in a new track at Crittenden and erecting two new,
350-seat auditoriums at both
of the campuses.
The trustees discussed the
plans at length. Trustee Steve
Nelson was generally supportive of the designs, but he
argued that the $6.5 million
price tag for each new auditorium was too much and advocated to cut the price down to
$2.5 million.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think a lot of the things

they are doing are very nice,â&#x20AC;?
Nelson told the Voice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But this
is just way too big a room, in
my opinion.â&#x20AC;?
Nelson said that he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
worried just about the price
tag for the buildings. He said
he was also concerned that
they would could create parking issues and that they would
require an additional full-time
employee, known as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;theater
technicianâ&#x20AC;? just to operate
them and keep them in running order.
The architects of the projects
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; DLM Architects and Artik
Art & Architecture â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were
skeptical that they could build
a suitable auditorium at that
price, however, and in the end
the plans were passed as presented.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are not huge auditoriums,â&#x20AC;? Superintendent Craig
Goldman said. The auditorium
will be well used for school and
community events, he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Based upon the size of the
auditorium, our experts tell us
that this is the price tag. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
believed all along that these

were critical components of
the modernization plans. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
grateful that the majority of
the board has supported those
projects,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Additionally, Goldman noted, the district held many
community meetings and consulted with parents, teachers
and students about the project
and that the outlined plan is
â&#x20AC;&#x153;consistent with what our community wants.â&#x20AC;?
Of all the projects outlined,
the modernization of classrooms is expected to be finished first â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the summer
of 2014. After that, the library
modernization at Graham is
scheduled to be completed in
the fall of 2014, and the new
library at Crittenden is slated
to wrap up in winter 2014.
The new sports center at
Crittenden is on track to be
finished in 2015 and the new
auditoriums arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t scheduled
to be completed until well into
2016.
V

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of food-bearing plants.
The 92-year-old woman who
sold the property to the city,
Frances Stieper, has a similar
desire, according to firefighter
John Miguel. Miguel, who
has become close friends with
Stieper. He met her eight years
ago on a medical call for her
late husband and realized that
she needed help around the
house. He’s been pitching in
ever since, along with other
firefighters.
“I feel like she’s my grand-

mother,” Miguel said as he also
helped with the cleanup. He said
Stieper had even visited his home
in Modesto and was in his family
photos. He had numerous stories
about his times with her. Though
he’s often helping her, “I’ve gotten way more out of it then she
ever has,” he said.
As for the prospect of turning the land into a park where
people could enjoy the vegetable
garden and fruit trees, Miguel
said. “That’s my vision for it and
Frances’ vision too. She’s just a
humble, sweet person.”
Stieper politely declined to
speak with the Voice, saying that

enough about her had already
been printed in the paper. Stieper
is still living on the site temporarily and would prefer not to be
disturbed.
Miguel said Stieper was a “giving” person, and her property
could keep on giving if her wishes
to preserve it as a park are honored by the city. Among the 125
trees on the property are those
bearing apricots, figs, avocados,
peaches, apples, oranges and
plums. A large collection of bee
hives keep the trees pollinated.
“Those ginormous fig trees
could feed half of Mountain
View,” said Marina Marinovich,

who grew up on one of the
many orchards that once existed in Mountain View, and was
helping during a clean up day at
the site last Friday. Marinovich
has been leading the effort to
preserve the tiny historic 1880s
“Immigrant House” that the
City Council decided to place
among the fruit trees on the
land, once funds are raised to
restore it. She envisions taking school kids on tours of the
property and being shown how
food can be grown.
Council member Margaret
Abe-Koga also admired the fruit
trees.
“It would be ideal to preserve
these,” she said pointing to the fruit
trees and artichoke plants while
helping to load debris into dumpsters during the cleanup day.

Volunteers from city staff and
the fire department spent a day
clearing things from the Stieper
property on North Rengstorff
Avenue.

Last Friday, a dozen firefighters were helping to clean up the
site and move Stieper’s things
after finishing two- and threedays shifts at the firehouse that
morning.
“This is the stuff we thrive on,
we’re here for the community,”
said Capt. George Mocak.
“It’s going to be nice for this
city to have an open space with
mature trees ,” said firefighter
Brendan Siegal. “Parks make a
community.”
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Painting on the dock of the bay
ARTIST EARL JUNGHANS IS HAPPIEST OUT IN THE BAYLANDS WITH HIS WATERCOLORS
By Rebecca Wallace

W

VERONICA WEBER

hile studying to be an
architect, immersed in
the precision of perspective, Earl Junghans chanced
to enroll in a watercolor class.
He labored to replicate “that old
magnificent Beaux Arts style,”
he recalled, painting layer upon
layer, letting each layer dry in
turn. It seemed like the way an
architect should approach fine
art. He spent a whole semester on
a single painting.
Then the teacher announced
that students had to turn in their
best five works. Junghans rushed
back to the studio and dashed off
four more paintings, using what
he’d learned at breakneck speed.
To his surprise, these paintings
outshone the first by a mile.
“I learned a lesson,” he said,
laughing. Freeing your brush
to swift inspiration sometimes
yields the best art.
Today, Junghans is still liberated by watercolors. Now a
retired architect, he retains the
science of perspective and all he
learned in his career about material and texture, light and shade.
But instead of using those lessons
in tight, detailed blueprint drawings, he lets them out to play on
soft watercolor paper. Visitors
to the Palo Alto and Mountain
View Baylands may see Junghans
outside painting, with a folding
chair and a portable table.
“What attracts me are scenes
that have a lot of darks and lights,
a lot of contrast. People think

Earl Junghans

watercolors are transparent and
pastelly, but that’s not true. It has
such potential. You can get the
brightness,” he said. Inspired by
the confident, vivid watercolors
of Winslow Homer and John
Singer Sargent, he’s never even
tried acrylic or oil paints.
This summer, 28 of Junghans’
paintings are so close to the Bay
that they’re practically damp.
He has a small solo exhibit at the
Environmental Volunteers’ EcoCenter out in the Palo Alto Baylands, where panoramic views
from the building showcase wind
and water. Across one wall are
Junghans’ own views of Byxbee
Park, waves, hills, boats and sky.
A resident of Menlo Park, the
artist chooses the Midpeninsula
to set most of his works. (Those
California-gold East Bay hills
do take center stage in at least
one painting.) Overall, the views
are a mix of broad landscapes
and up-close detail. A pair of
paintings called “Fading Marsh
Grasses” looks carefully at a

complex maze of blades.
“Sometimes I see something
and am attracted to it because it’s
so difficult to paint,” Junghans
said. It helps that he does pencil
work before painting, outlining his images and figuring out
where the shadows are.
The same meticulous brushstrokes show up in “Interpretive
Center Detail,” where the wood
slats on a pier mirror the ripples
in the water. In “Sea Scout Boat,”
the artist has painted a small
boat and a coiling rope in rich
blue-grays, with sharp panels of
light and shade.
While out by the Bay, Junghans
has found his attention captured
many times over the years by Palo
Alto’s airport. “Landing Gear #2”
offers a low view of a plane and
its wheels, and the underside of
a wing. “I sat right here on the
ground and painted,” Junghans

“East Bay Mountains” by Earl Junghans.

said. This was before 9/11. When
he tried to do another airplane
painting more recently, a security
man chased him away.
Junghans originally hails from
Virginia and moved to the Bay
Area a few years after finishing
college. He had visited the city by
the Bay on a class trip and fallen
hard. “There’s nothing like San
Francisco,” he said.

When he first moved here,
he didn’t know anyone, so he
spent many of his weekends
outside painting. Decades later,
he keeps painting and exhibiting; past solo shows have been
at the Pacific Art League in Palo
Alto and at the SLAC National
Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo
Park. He describes himself as an
active person, busy and athletic.
Watercolor paintings fit right in.
“The quicker you do them, the
better they come off,” he said.
“I love art, but I don’t like to sit
around.”
Information:
An exhibition of Baylands watercolors
by Earl Junghans at the Environmental
Volunteers’ EcoCenter, 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. Through Aug. 28,
with a reception on June 29 from 1 to
3 p.m. The EcoCenter is open Monday,
Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 to 3.
Admission to the center is free. Go to
evols.org or call 650-493-8000.

Left: “Tree Reflection.”
Inset, below: “Sea Scout Boat.”

VERONICA WEBER

Earl Junghans works on a painting at the Palo Alto Baylands.

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■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ June 28, 2013

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Fitness center to replace Grant Road businesses
By Daniel DeBolt

C

ity Council members
struggled to keep a bagel
shop in business as a
shopping center owner proposed to replace it and several
other businesses with a new fitness center aimed at serving
“the upwardly mobile.”
The fitness center is called the
City Sports Club. Said to be
owned by the world’s largest fitness company, it has “upwardly
mobile, affluent clientele” with
“disposable income,” a representative told the council Tuesday, June 25.
Council members voted 5-0
to allow the fitness center, with
several conditions. Members
Chris Clark and Mike Kasperzak were absent.
The 24-hour fitness center
would go in a 40,000-squarefoot space that has been occupied by Rite Aide, New York
Pizza and The Better Bagel.

GAY MARRIAGE
Continued from page 1

sonally, we are going to continue being who we always were,”
he said. And that means that
they will continue to speak out
and fight for the rights of their
community.
Fiorino noted that while he
and Khuu are finally getting
equal recognition under the
law, there are still many states
where same-sex marriage is
illegal. In those states, he
pointed out, the DOMA ruling doesn’t mean much, since

Marshalls and several other
small businesses would remain.
The landlord had found a way
to relocate New York Pizza, but
not the 20-year-old bagel shop,
which concerned council members.
The married couple that owns
the the Better Bagel said they
would lose their livelihood.
“We have two kids in school,
that’s the only income we have,”
said Ted, one of the owners. “I
did not seek any legal help or
anything because I thought I
couldn’t afford it. All my regular
customers urged me to come
here to hopefully talk and work
something out. This is my last
hope.”
City Attorney Jannie Quinn
said it was beyond the council’s
authority to require relocation
of the bagel shop, though most
council members wanted to.
“It is our jobs to keep the fabric of Mountain View intact,”
said council member Jac Siegel.

those states don’t recognized
the validity of gay marriage in
the first place.
“We’ve taken a huge step
today,” Fiorino said, “but we’re
not done yet.”
Fiorino and Khuu planed to
attend a rally in downtown
Mountain View Wednesday
evening. Khuu said the rally
had been scheduled ahead of
time and organizers had
planned either to protest or
celebrate the Supreme Court’s
ruling. “I guess it’s going to be
celebratory,” Khuu said.

“We’re changing the fabric of
the city.”
“I want to see hard work happening to try and retain that
business,” said council member
Ronit Bryant.
Eventually the owner of the
shopping center stepped in.
“We would be more than happy
to accommodate Better Bagel,”
he said, but that it would mean
the business would have to shut
down for four months as the
building is remodeled and new
space is made for them in the
Rite Aide’s former garden center. He said he wasn’t sure the
bagel shop could afford that.
Mayor Inks said the owners
have been trying to find a new
tenant for the Rite Aide site
for years. He said it could “go
dark” if the council imposed
unrealistic requirements on the
project. The problem has been

the building’s “throated” entryway. Customers enter through
a long corridor created by the
addition of the small business
spaces in front of the building,
an unattractive design that no
major retailer wants.
The Fitness Center is not a
use allowed by the site’s zoning,
requiring the council vote on a
provisional use permit. Without
it, the owner said a grocery store
could take the site, and several
grocery stores are interested,
despite the presence of a Nob
Hill and Ranch 99 next door. No
council vote would be required.
“I think you’ll hear a lot
more opposition to something
like that, if that includes losing all businesses on the front
side, including Better Bagel”
said council member Margaret
Ab-Koga of the grocery store
option.

Council members did require
changes at the rear of the site
where residents are likely to
enter on Pamela Drive. City staff
may end up requiring windows,
new lighting, asphalt, pedestrian
pathways, and a rear entrance to
the building to encourage use of
the rear parking lot — all were
suggestions by council members.
“I can’t support anything
unless we do some serious
improvement to the back,” said
council member Ronit Bryant.
“The driveway is badly maintained and very unpleasant.”
The shopping center owner
said adding windows to the
building would not be possible
because of the building’s cement
walls.
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SCHOOL DISTRICT TO FILM, STREAM MEETINGS
With the board of trustees’ informal blessing, officials with
the Mountain View Whisman School District have begun taking
steps toward establishing a system for video recording and live
streaming all board meetings.
After a discussion item at the district’s June 20 board of trustees meeting, Superintendent Craig Goldman proposed moving
to implement a system in which the public gatherings would be
filmed and broadcast using Google Hangouts — a free product
that will simultaneously stream the meeting live on YouTube
and also allow anyone with access to the video sharing service to
watch a meeting after the fact.
Trustee Chris Chiang, who was elected to the board in 2012
after running a campaign in which he pledged to bring the
district into the 21st Century, initially brought the idea of filming board meetings and putting them on the web using Google
Hangouts.
In previous meetings Chiang told the board he favored the
service because it was free, easy to use and would allow community members and other guest speakers to chime into meetings
remotely.
“Filming, to me, seemed like a simple, low cost thing that we
should be doing,” Chiang said. “I’m very happy it’s happening.”
The district has not yet set a date for when it will begin filming
and streaming its meetings.
—Nick Veronin

Elsa Del Frate
June 25, 1926 – June 13, 2013
Resident of Mountain View
Elsa Del Frate passed away unexpectedly but
peacefully on June 13th, while on vacation with
her family in Hawaii. A beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother, she was a guiding light to all who knew her. Spending time
with and cooking for family and friends were
her passions. She will be forever missed by all,
especially those who were able to enjoy her incredible Italian cooking.
Born in Italy in 1926, Elsa spent a portion of
her childhood growing up in Brazil. Returning
to Italy in her teens, Elsa met and fell in love
with Marino. The two were married on September 7th 1947, and began their life together that
would last more than 50 years, until Marino’s
passing in 1998. They left Italy in the late 1950’s
with their 2 oldest children, ﬁrst moving to
Canada, and then on to the United States where
they settled in Mountain View in the Fall of ‘67.
Devout Catholics, Marino and Elsa began worshiping at St. Joseph’s Parish, and up until her
passing, Elsa could be seen on her daily walk to
Mass. Her generous support and work for both

St. Joseph’s Church
and School, and
the Italian Catholic
Federation were an
inspiration for all.
She was preceded in death by her
beloved Marino,
son-in-law, Bill Puccetti and granddaughter
Stephanie Del Frate. Elsa is survived by her
children Marcy Puccetti, Pier Del Frate, Joanne
MacDonald, and son-in-law, Todd MacDonald;
her granddaughters Christina Linneman and
husband James, Amy Randazzo and husband
Brandon, Alexandra and Erika MacDonald;
great grandchildren Sean, Evelyn, Jake, Soﬁa
and Addison.
Services have been held at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Mtn. View. Funeral arrangements
were coordinated by the Cusimano Family Colonial Mortuary, Mtn. View. Donations in Elsa’s
memory may be made to St. Joseph Catholic
Church or School.
PA I D

lthough its new budget
shows the Mountain View
Whisman School District
running a structural deficit in
the coming school year, Superintendent Craig Goldman expects
his district will be in the black by
this time next year.
Things are looking up, Goldman said. With Gov. Jerry
Brown promising a balanced
budget for the foreseeable
future, Proposition 30 pulling
in far more money than anticipated, a new formula that gives
more control to local districts
over how they spend state dollars and funds from the recently
passed Shoreline Community
Joint Powers Agreement, the
superintendent has high hopes
for the next few years. Still,
he added, district officials are
being cautious.
Goldman explained that the
2013-14 district budget â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which
passed at the June 20 board
meeting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; does not account for
the money from the Shoreline
JPA, nor does it make any presumptions about how the new
local control formula will help
the district. It also doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count
on grant dollars that will most
certainly come the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
way.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We tend to be fairly conservative,â&#x20AC;? Goldman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
overestimate revenue.â&#x20AC;?
The budget, as approved last
week, makes it appear that the
district is planning to spend
more than it anticipates taking
in. The current budget projects
$42.77 million in revenue â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
down from $48.28 million in
the 2012-13 school year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and
calls for expenditures of $45.88
million, compared to the $42.11
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previous year.
That level of spending would
put the district in the red by
about $3.1 million. But Goldman said he is hopeful things
will work out much better
than that, as he believes much
more revenue will come the
districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get the
benefit from a state recovery.
As state revenues go up, that
recovery is ref lected in higher
revenue guarantees.â&#x20AC;?
Even in a worst-case scenario,
if it runs a structural deficit, the
district has â&#x20AC;&#x153;significant reservesâ&#x20AC;?
to cover the red ink, he said.
With the increased expenditures, the administration, faculty and staff will all get cost of
living wage increases of at least
2 percent next school year, and
the district will spend more on
instruction.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be an exciting
year instructionally, as the district begins to implement the
common core state standards
and we begin to pilot more
groundbreaking initiatives with
respect to blended learning and
project-based learning,â&#x20AC;? Goldman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are extremely
grateful that an improvement in
the state economy and a strong
source of local revenue will allow
us to focus on quality programs
for students instead of deciding
where to make cuts.â&#x20AC;?
When asked whether he
thought the district was climbing
out of the recession, Goldman
chose his words carefully.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The worst is behind us and the
worst is ahead of us,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do go through financial
cycles in our economy. Fiscally,
we never take the moment for
granted. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always looking for
a way to be sustainable as an
organization.â&#x20AC;?
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a USGS study from 1986 that
showed flow into the creek at half
the levels predicted by the water
district. He added that the water
district failed to “calibrate” its
model for creek flows against the
USGS numbers, as has been done
for other creeks.
Water district engineer Liang
Xu said Moll was wrong about
the usefulness of the USGS data.
“The district always calibrates
our models when data is available and reliable,” Xu said in
an email. “USGS doesnít have
a hydrologic model for Permanente watershed and just had a
few high flow measurements in
1986.”
Moll also expressed concern
about the basin at Rancho being
“a settling or collection pond for
selenium” — the toxic mining
waste that’s been flowing into the
creek from the Lehigh cement
quarry in the hills just above
Rancho San Antonio. A cleanup
is underway, thanks to a settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed
by the Sierra Club.
After the meeting, Rouhani
said that the area already sees
flooding from the creek and
would continue to have a 10
percent chance of flooding every
year.
A neighbor of the creek in
Los Altos who said she would
benefit from the project’s flood
protections but was concerned
about losing access to trails during construction at Rancho San
Antonio. Rouhani told the Voice
that access to the HammondSnyder trail would be blocked
by construction and that the
trail would have to be re-routed
after the flood basin is built. The
parking lot will be rebuilt next to
the basin.
Addressing the concern about
construction impacts, Simitian
made it a condition of the board’s
approval to have “as many as two
public hearings after construction has started” if requested by
a county supervisor in response
to complaints from park users.
Construction will begin on the
Rancho San Antonio basin as
early as next summer, Rouhani
said. Construction on the Mountain View City Council-approved
McKelvey Park basin could begin
in the summer of 2015.

take P.E. if they wanted.
Heck and Heye outlined a
path by which a marching band
or color guard instructor might
cover the same physical education curriculum that students
would be getting if they were in
a P.E. class.
No P.E. teachers came to the
June 17 meeting to challenge the
proposal and the motion passed
4-0. Trustee Joe Mitchner was
absent.

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The new policy still requires
freshman to take a P.E. course,
according to Brigitte Saraff,
MVLAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s associate superintendent
of educational services. By California law, the district is required
to expose students to eight physical education concepts.
Saraff said the way it will likely
work for those students who
choose to take marching band
or color guard and opt out of
two subsequent semesters of
P.E., is that those students will be
exposed to five of the eight P.E.
concepts during their freshman

year, and either the marching
band or color guard instructor
will cover the remaining three
concepts over the course of two
semesters of the activity.
The passage of the policy
puts marching band and color
guard in line with other extra
curricular physical activities,
such as cheerleading, dance and
sports â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of which count for
P.E. credit.
Saraff also noted during informational hearings on the proposed policy change that it used
to be that all sports and other
highly physical extra curricular
activities would count toward
P.E. credits. Then, during the
late 2000s, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education
code forbid local school districts
from allowing teachers with
non-P.E. credentials from teaching physical education. Saraff
said she was unsure why the
authority was taken away from
school districts.
The law changed back in early
2012, and local districts were
once again given authority to
allow non-P.E. teachers to teach
classes for P.E. credit.
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request by union officials to
restore wages lost by the janitors by advancing pay on the
scale used in the SEIU contract,
which maxes out at $14.04 an
hour after four years. Public
works director Mike Fuller said
that would cost the city more
than is budgeted this year for
janitorial services, based on
what the city is paying its current contractor.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to live on $8.50 an
hour in this region,â&#x20AC;? said Dennis Drodge, political director
of the South Bay AFL-CIO,
referring to the starting wage
on the SEIU scale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why
San Jose raised the minimum
wage.â&#x20AC;?
Mayor Inks questioned the
assertion that $8.50 an hour
was not enough to live on.
He said a union contractor
shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be required, as it
might go against â&#x20AC;&#x153;whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the
best value for the cityâ&#x20AC;? and be
an irresponsible use of taxpayer
money.
SEIU officials noted that the
union is in a labor dispute with
the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current contractor,
IMS, because it had signed onto
the SEIUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bay Area-wide agreement but had not been abiding
by the agreement with its janitors in Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s city
buildings.
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nyone with a stake in local elementary and high
schools should be smiling after the city agreed
to share about $5 million a year in property tax
revenue from the Shoreline Community with the two
districts. The decision could mean up to $1,000 a year per
student to the Mountain View Whisman Elementary and
Mountain View Los Altos High School districts.
The decision finally will correct an imbalance that has
shortchanged local districts since 2009, when the the
schools became financed by local property taxes in what
is known as a basic aid district. With over $25 million a
year in property taxes going to the Shoreline District and
bypassing local schools and government agencies, parents
and school officials saw a major injustice and began lobbying the city to provide a fair share of this revenue to the
schools.
The first commitment came in 2011 when the districts
split $4.9 million, partially as a result of lobbying by parents who strongly believed revenue should be shared using
the same ratio as if the Shoreline District did not exist.
The split approved last week is down slightly from prior
years, providing a minimum of $4.7 million a year for the
districts to share, which could go up or down depending
on property tax revenue. The Mountain View Whisman
district would be guaranteed a minimum of $2.87 million
a year for 10 years, while the high school district would
receive a guaranteed payment of $1.84 million a year over
the same period.
City officials say the fund-sharing amounts to six times
what the city gave schools in years prior to 2011. The
obscure Shoreline tax district was off the radar of school
officials and parents until a Voice article in 2010 reported
that the elementary district alone was being short-changed
more than $5 million a year in property tax revenue due
to the stipulations of the special tax district. That set the
stage for the lobbying effort that ultimately won out.
The funds will continue to be earmarked for technology-related programs, according to city officials, which
will create a link to the original purpose of the funds for
the Shoreline area, home to companies that need highly
skilled workers. School district officials say the money
likely will be used to start phasing in new curriculum in
line with national Common Core standards.
It may be difficult to imagine that back in 1969, when
the state Legislature passed the measure that established
the Shoreline Community and authorized it to collect
nearly all the taxes on properties north of Highway 101,
school districts were free to impose higher property taxes
if money was tight. Then Proposition 13 passed, and that
avenue was closed, leaving Mountain View schools to exist
on state funding. Now, with basic aid, local districts are
funded by property taxes as well as some state grants. So
sharing tax income from the Shoreline District will enable
the elementary and high school districts to once again get
their fair share of local property tax revenue.
Mountain View Whisman Superintendent Craig Goldman said the money comes at an opportune time, as the
district is exploring new trends in education such as
project-based learning and phasing in Common Core
standards.

BOARD PRESIDENT BACKS
AUDITORIUMS
Our school board has received
lots of public comment via multiple forums, emails, an online
survey, and in our meetings
regarding our upcoming construction work at Crittenden
and Graham Middle Schools.
I vividly recall a recent meeting when our boardroom was
packed with parents, teachers,
principals, and students where
we listened to lengthy testimony about their enthusiasm for
brand-new theaters and rehearsal spaces at each of our two
middle school campuses. These,
along with a long-awaited track
at Crittenden and renovated and
modernized classrooms, would
result in the best use of our new
bond money, they said.
Our architects heard them,
too, and crafted campus designs
with the features that were
requested. The results are both
beautiful and practical. I think
any parent would be proud
to send their child to those
schools, and teachers will be
pleased to work in such spaces.
Our board voted at its June
20 meeting to approve the
designs of both of our middle
schools. These designs include
the aforementioned theaters
and rehearsal spaces, a track
at Crittenden, and renovated
and modernized classrooms.
In the fall we will continue our
approval process as we are asked
to approve designs with more
specificity. In the meantime
our architects will be working
to fine-tune their designs to our
specifications and budget. And,
we will be asking for more and
more community input every

step of the way.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud to be a member of
a community that supports our
schools in this way.
Ellen Wheeler
Board President
Mountain View Whisman
School District

COUNCIL AGAIN OPTS TO
KEEP US IN THE DARK
Once again our City Council,
particularly Mike Kasperzak,
ignores the residents of Mountain View.
They use the mushroom
approach â&#x20AC;&#x201D; keep issues in the
dark and feed us what they
hope weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll believe.
The intent of the city charter is to keep Mountain View
residents informed at the lowest cost practicable. The City
Council chooses to follow the
letter of the charter and ignore
the spirit by publishing legal
notices in San Jose.
Konrad Sosnow
Trophy Drive

REMEMBER FREE SPEECH?
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappointing to hear so
many elected officials call people like Julian Assange, Bradley
Manning and Edward Snowden
criminals, traitors, and so on.
It would seem that in addition
to having forgotten about our
privacy, free speech, and freedom of the press, many officeholders have also forgotten
about the right to due process.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sad commentary on a
group of individuals who have
sworn to protect and defend the
Constitution.
Bill Michel
Ortega Avenue

ithin minutes of the
beginning of our conversation, Dave Classick
makes his intentions plain. “Our
whole function here is to create a
distilling family dynasty,” he says,
standing behind the bar of the
small kitchenette inside the Essential Spirits Alambic Distillery.
Classick runs the distillery out of

a warehouse near the intersection of
Dana Street and Whisman Road in
Mountain View. He is the “master
distiller,” and his wife and co-founder, Andrea Mirenda, takes care of the
business end of things. Son Dave Jr.
holds the title of “distiller” and takes
care of IT, and daughter Audrey
works at shopping the brand around
when she isn’t in school.
Though small in size, Essential
Spirits is global in reach and vision.

Classick uses a hand-hammered
copper still from France to produce
rum made of Hawaiian molasses; the
Italian drink grappa; and a German
spirit not familiar to many Americans: bierschnaps, a distilled spirit
made from beer and possessing a distinctly beery aroma and aftertaste.
Essential Spirits was founded
in 1998, but Classick and his wife
began working on the business a
few years earlier. Classick had been

working in the software industry for
decades and had become dismayed
with the increasing emphasis that was
being placed on speeding up production. He was looking to start a business and leave the fast and frenzied
life of high-tech behind.
After tasting the brandy produced
by well-known Mendocino County
distiller Hubert Germain-Robin, he
and his wife got to thinking. “We
looked at that and thought, ‘You
know, coffee roasteries are happening; micro breweries are happening;
we live in one of the biggest wineand fruit-producing regions of the
world,’” Classick says, explaining the
reasoning that led to the founding of
Essential Spirits.
After making his way through
a web of red tape with the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives and jumping through
hoops to assure the Mountain View
City Council that he could operate his
still safely, Classick got ready to produce his first batch of spirits, which he
originally thought would be a vodka.
He went to ask a local brewer for some
help and advice, since the process of
making vodka begins much the same
way as brewing beer.
“The guy who was working over
there happened to be a Bavarian, and
he said: ‘Oh, it’s too bad you can’t make
bierschnaps like we used to get over in
Bavaria.’ And I said: ‘Bierschnaps? Tell
me more!’” Classick recalls.

N I N F O R M AT I O N
Essential Spirits Alambic Distillery
is at 144 S. Whisman Road in
Mountain View; products can
be bought locally at the Whole
Foods Market in Los Altos and
at Ava’s Downtown Market &
Deli in Mountain View. Go to
essentialspirits.com or call 650962-0546.

Classick began producing bierschnaps — at one point partnering
with the Sierra Nevada Brewing
Company before the brand grew
larger and ended its affiliation.
Unlike Sierra Nevada, Classick
says he has no intention to grow the
company much beyond its current
size. However, after following up his
bierschnaps with another somewhat
obscure product — grappa — he
decided he ought to try his hand at a
more mainstream liquor. But even in
his effort to go mainstream, Classick
insisted on taking an alternate route:
producing rum, which is not as popular as vodka or whiskey, and choosing to make it with molasses from
Hawaii, not from the Caribbean,
where most other rum is sourced.
The Vietnam veteran says he developed a special bond with Hawaii over
the course of his deployment. “On
the way to Vietnam, I went through
Hawaii and then I came through

Hawaii on my way back, and just fell
in love with the islands.”
When he began looking into producing rum, he came to understand
that due to the island’s long history
with Christian missionaries, rum
production had long been discouraged in Hawaii. Classick insists that
his rum, with its hints of volcanic soil
and Pacific Ocean sunlight, is unlike
any other you will taste.
Whether a discerning palate can
detect those qualities in the rum —
named Sergeant Classick’s in honor
of the distiller’s military rank — all
of the products produced at Essential Spirits are quite evidently made
with care.
Sergeant Classick’s rum is smooth
and evenly toned; the vodka he
produces for the Tahoe Blue label
has little bite, even at room temperature; and the bierschnaps has a
zesty, hoppy finish that any pale ale
fan will likely enjoy.
While Classick is willing and proud
to accept some of the credit for his
product, he also insists that his still
deserves recognition. “It’s the only
still like it in North or South America,” he says, explaining the inner
workings of a filtration component
called an “analyzer,” which catches
impurities and pulls them out of the
steam during the distillation process.
Many small stills don’t have one, and
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the ones that do rarely work the
same way his does.
He explains the trick in language
that reveals his scientific background. While most analyzers
allow a fair amount of the impure
condensation to drip back down
to the bottom, where they may be
once again turned to steam and
perhaps make it through to the
finished product, his still’s analyzer whisks the impurities away,
ensuring that they don’t end up in
the bottle, he says.
“You can drink as much as
you want of these products and
no headaches, no hangovers,”
Classick claims, with the caveat
that the drinker must stay sufficiently hydrated in the process.
“They’re enormously pure, and
that’s because of the construction of this still.”
Whether they’re hangoverproof or not, it’s clear that
Classick takes great care in the
production of his spirits. The

secret to his success may be in the
blending of his scientific background and artistic intuition.
“It’s a complex biochemical,
chemical, and mechanical process. There’s a lot of science you
can bring,” he says of the distilling
process. “But it’s still an art craft.”
Classick shared stories about the
mythology and history of distilling, explaining how Benedictine
monks would age their brandy.
Later he pulled out a pen and pad,
giving an impromptu lesson on
the physic of distilling.
“It’s like cooking,” he says.
“You can give someone a recipe
book, and they can follow a
recipe, cross all the T’s and dot all
the I’s — step by step, slavishly —
but that doesn’t guarantee they’re
going to get a result.”
There is a humanity to Classick’s method, and it’s apparent
in the quality of his products
and the passion he displays in
talking about his craft. You
might just say his spirit comes
through in his spirits. N

Dave Classick’s family-run distillery produces spirits that range from grappa and vodka to bierschaps
and gin.

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to protect the filmmakers from lawsuits
than â&#x20AC;&#x153;to protect the innocentâ&#x20AC;?), but the
setting and characters all correspond to
real-life figures implicated in what came
to be known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Bling Ringâ&#x20AC;? (or â&#x20AC;&#x153;the
Burglar Bunchâ&#x20AC;?). The film opens in Calabasas, Calif., circa 2009, as a group of
teenagers commit a robbery. In a classic
Sofia Coppola touch, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;alarmâ&#x20AC;?ing rock
of Sleigh Bellsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crown on the Groundâ&#x20AC;?
kicks in as the teens trespass. Coppolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
screenplay captures the casual escalation,
the seeming inevitability that this perfect
storm of disaffected youth and celebrity
worship would lead a widening circle of
friends (including characters played by
Emma Watson and Taissa Farmiga) to
start pillaging the homes of celebrities
when the gossip sites report theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be out
shooting movies, attending events or living in other residences. The justifications
reflect common and historic reasoning
behind theft, from shoplifting to bank
robberies: The victims can afford it, and
they deserve it. (Paris Hilton, whose person and home appear in the film, would
leave her key under the mat.) Rated
PG-13 for some sexuality and brief drug
use. One hour, 30 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; P.C.

THE EAST ---

Are we headed in the wrong direction?
A collective called The East thinks so,
and its members believe corporations are
taking us there through â&#x20AC;&#x153;worldwide terrorism.â&#x20AC;? And so, The East commits ecoterrorism against Western corporations.
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the setup for suspense thriller
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The East,â&#x20AC;? directed by Zal Batmanglij
and co-written by Batmanglij and star
Brit Marling. Marling plays Jane Owen,
a fomer counter-terrorist agent for the
FBI who now lends her expertise to the
private sector. As an operative for the
private intelligence firm Hiller Brood
(headed by Patricia Clarksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sharon),
Jane infiltrates eco-terrorist groups
and gathers intelligence to share with
law enforcement as they dismantle the
groups. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all well and good for the
ambitious and devoutly Christian Jane
until she gets in with The East, whose
anarchism seems more reasoned to her
the longer she spends in their company.
This is a form of Stockholm Syndrome,
yes, but perhaps something more as she
sees the legitimate appeal of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
intimacy and depth of belief, and the
undeniable, unanswered crimes of the
corporate executives they target. Rated
PG-13 for thematic elements, violence,
disturbing images, sexual content and
nudity. One hour, 56 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; P.C.

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Given the socioreligiously loaded subject
matter, discussing “Fill the Void” feels
like tiptoeing through a minefield. To
hear writer-director Rama Burshtein tell
it, the film’s raison d’etre is to give voice
to her ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community,
providing at last an insider’s view to what
has been a commonly closed community. The story is straightforward enough
on its face: 18-year-old Shira (Hadas
Yaron) faces pressure — mostly from
her mother (Irit Sheleg) — to marry the
husband (Yiftach Klein) of Shira’s recently
deceased sister. The action begins in a
supermarket, where a would-be matchmaker points out a potential husband

in the dairy section. Later, an elderly
woman relies upon the kindness of her
rabbi for help in buying a stove. The rest
of “Fill the Void” — composed entirely
of conversation after conversation about
who’ll marry whom — can be terminally
dull, like some kind of purgatorial coffee
klatsch to which outsiders have been
mistakenly invited. Rated PG for mild
thematic elements and brief smoking.
One hour, 30 minutes. — P.C.

watch salesmen who shoot the moon
by applying for an internship at Google,
despite their lack of knowledge about
technology. Naturally, Google accepts the
pair, overlooking that these fools qualify
as college students only by a hasty enrollment in the online University of Phoenix.
Although Vaughn’s riffing skills remain
in fine form, as do Wilson’s, the story
makes every obvious choice. The script
also happily tells flagrant lies about how
technological idiots could thrive in such a
competition by learning programming in
less than a month, or cramming enough
study about Gmail in one night to man
a helpline the next day. The production
spent five days shooting at Google’s
Mountain View campus, but mostly shot
on replica sets at the Georgia Institute of
Technology. It’s an effective simulacrum,
and so, in a way, is the movie, which
pushes a root-for-the-underdog vibe so
sunny one might almost forget that 95
percent of the young interns who fear
uncertain futures will be shown the door.
Rated PG-13 for sexuality, some crude
humor, partying and language. One hour,
59 minutes. — P.C.

IRON MAN 3 ---

Public Notice for KSFH
Mountain View, CA
On November 29, 2005, KSFH was granted a
license by the Federal Communications Commission
to serve the public interest as a public trustee until
December 1, 2013.
Our license will expire on December 1, 2013. We
must ﬁle an application for renewal with the FCC
by August 1, 2013. When ﬁled, a copy of this
application will be available for public inspection
during our regular business hours. It contains
information concerning this station’s performance
during the last license term commencing on
December 1, 2005.
Individuals who wish to advise the FCC of facts
relating to our renewal application and to whether
this station has operated in the public interest
should ﬁle comments and petitions with the FCC
by November 1, 2013.
Further information concerning the FCC’s
broadcast license renewal process is available at
Station KSFH, (1885 Miramonte Ave., Mountain
View, CA 94040), or may be obtained from the
FCC, Washington, D.C. 20554.
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This ambitious third installment in the
“Iron Man” franchise offers (Robert)
Downey (Jr.) another chance to shine. He
continues to add layers to a complex character and infuse the often somber genre
with comedic charm (this is a comic-book
movie, after all). Despite a slow start and
plot missteps, “Iron Man 3” soars thanks
to its leading man and director Shane
Black’s man-on-wire balancing act of
humor and action. After helping defend
Earth from a horde of alien invaders and
nearly dying in the process (as seen in
2012’s “The Avengers”), Tony Stark is content tinkering in his Malibu mansion and
sharing a bed with his girlfriend/personal
assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow).
But he’s quickly reminded of the pitfalls of
being a high-profile superhero with the
introduction of two adversaries: Aldrich
Killian (Guy Pearce), a fellow tech genius
and founder of A.I.M. (Advanced Idea
Mechanics); and a shadowy Osama bin
Laden-esque terrorist known as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). The visual effects and
action sequences are stunning, especially
when Tony’s Iron Man armor(s) take flight.
The costuming, however, is more hit-andmiss. Rated PG-13 for intense sci-fi action/
violence and brief suggestive content. 2
hours, 20 minutes. — T.H.

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY
---1/2

Weirdly, since its presumable core audience
is made up of kids, “Monsters University”
may be the most thoughtful and, in social
terms, realistic film ever made about the
college experience. I apply “realistic” flexibly, of course, because Monsters University
is just what it sounds like: the esteemed
institution where young monsters like Mike
Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and “Sulley” Sullivan (John Goodman) matriculate. These
BFF characters from “Monsters, Inc.” have
yet to meet when “Monsters University”
begins. The film recounts their initial dislike,
teamwork under duress and eventual bond
of friendship. While fairly all-around impeccable, from its sight gags to its super-fun
Randy Newman score, “Monsters University” most impresses with its perfection as
a friendship story and its breadth of considerations about the value and meaning of
college, which the film acknowledges but
most certainly does not take for granted
(remember, one-time Pixar CEO Steve Jobs
was a college dropout). Rated G. One hour,
50 minutes. — P.C.

Amy Acker, seated, stars as Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing.”

MUCH ADO
ABOUT NOTHING ---1/2

When you have material on the order
of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About
Nothing,” the trick is, essentially, not
to screw it up. There is no greater hell
than sitting through poorly acted and
directed Shakespeare. With a low-key
concept and a troupe of likeable performers, Joss Whedon delivers a take
on “Much Ado” that’s the equivalent
of a breezy, if disposable, Shakespeare
in the Park production. Whedon’s
company, composed almost entirely
of alumni from his TV series and films,
has a unified feel. Alexis Denisof and
Amy Acker play Beatrice and Benedick,
the forerunners of “Cheers”’ Sam and
Diane, and “Moonlighting”’s Dave and
Maddie: They’re fools for love, too busy
resenting each other to notice they’re
mad about each other. The actors here
show an easy chemistry, helped along
by Whedon’s casually amusing staging
choices (like having Benedick preen for
Beatrice while working out in a track
suit); so too do the stars ably handle
the Bard’s third-act turn into darker
territory. Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and brief drug use. One hour, 49
minutes. — P.C.

NOW YOU SEE ME --

The signature line of the new “magicians pull heists” movie “Now You
See Me” says it all: “The closer you
look, the less you see.” It’s meant to
be a lesson in stepping back and taking in the big picture, but it lands as
an accurate appraisal of the movie’s
emptiness. A mysterious figure selects
and brings together Vegas-y attractions
J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) and
Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), as well as
two hustlers: mentalist Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and small-time
scammer Jack Wilder (Dave Franco).
After a time jump, we find the motley
crew headlining a giant MGM Grand
show under the patronage of insurance mogul Arthur Tressler (Michael
Caine) and the eye of debunker
Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman).
Unfortunately, the film establishes then
ignores an intriguing premise that the
“Four Horsemen” are being tested for
membership in an ancient magic cult.
Instead, the picture makes character
incidental to standard-issue twists that
strain credulity. There are worse distractions to be had than “Now You See
Me,” but in a crowded summer marketplace, don’t be surprised if “Now You
Don’t” right quick. Rated PG-13 for
language, action and sexual content.
One hour, 56 minutes. — P.C.

STAR TREK
INTO DARKNESS ---

J.J. Abrams and his screenwriting team of
Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon
Lindelof have a gift for 21st-century spectacle and a deficit of subtlety. That, one
must concede, is a winning combination for
a big-budget actioner like “Star Trek Into
Darkness,” and the picture’s entertainment
virtues don’t end there. As seen in the previous film, the iconic characters, handled with
heart and humor, remain in the good hands
of a fine ensemble, and Abrams’ tone of
science-fiction sensation and sentiment has
proven successful. Still, there are tradeoffs
in the hurtling pace and general breathless
busyness of these pictures, which seek to
whip the customer out of conscious thought
and into a heart-pounding experience (now
in 3D!). The approach at times seems to
demand a picture to turn on the dumb,
in certain plot particulars. On the other
hand, ethical convolutions — as acted out
by the arrogant but skilled James T. Kirk
(Chris Pine), the logical Mr. Spock (Zachary
Quinto), and a wild card (terrorist John Harrison, played by the splendid Benedict Cumberbatch) — feed into at least superficial
sociopolitical allegory. Sidestepping spoilers,
I can tell you that Kirk embarks on a mission
of vengeance that forces him to reconsider
his moral position. Is he comfortable, per
the dubious orders of Starfleet Admiral
Marcus (Peter Weller), condemning a man
to die without a trial as part of a military
operation? Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and
violence. Two hours, 12 minutes. — P.C.

THIS IS THE END --1/2

Written and first-time-directed by the team
of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who
previously penned “Superbad,” “The Green
Hornet” and “Pineapple Express”), the
film proceeds from the amusing premise
of elite celebrities brought down to size by
Judgment Day. Buddies Seth Rogen (Seth
Rogen) and Jay Baruchel (Jay Baruchel) get
together to hang out, go to a party hosted
by James Franco (James Franco), and run
into more famous friends, including Jonah
Hill (Jonah Hill), Craig Robinson (Craig
Robinson) and Danny McBride (Danny
McBride). When all hellfire on earth, sinkholes and roaming demonic monsters break
loose, the stars board up Franco’s compound and ineptly attempt to survive. Rated
R for crude and sexual content throughout,
brief graphic nudity, pervasive language,
drug use and some violence. One hour, 47
minutes. — P.C.

‘Felines & Florals’ Jane W. Ferguson presents
a collection of works in watermedia on paper and
canvas. She will also showcase some of her newly
designed “TOTE-ally-ART.” Meet Ferguson at an
evening reception on Friday, June 21, 5-7 p.m., at
the gallery. Viewpoints Gallery closes at 3 p.m. on
Sundays. June 3-30, Free. Viewpoints Gallery, 315
State St., Los Altos. www.viewpointsgallery
‘Gone to the Wild’ - prints by Kathryn
Kain An exhibition of prints by artist Kathryn
Kain will be on display in the Mohr Gallery at the
Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA). An
opening reception will be held with the artist on
Friday, June 21 from 6-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday,
June 21-July 28, 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center,
230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. www.
arts4all.org/attend/mohrgallery.htm
Carol Hake Still Life Paintings “Still Life
Paintings” by Los Altos artist, Carol Hake, are on
display at Gallery 9. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-4 p.m. June
4-29, Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. www.
gallery9losaltos.com
Tony Coluzzi Photographic Exhibition
An exhibit by Bay Area artist Tony Coluzzi, “Vietnam in Color & Landscapes in Black & White,” will
be on display at Gallery 9 in Los Altos from July 2
through July 28. The exhibit includes works from
travels to Vietnam. A reception for the artist will
take place Friday, July 5, from 5 to 8 p.m. Gallery
hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday,
noon-4 p.m. Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos.
www.gallery9losaltos.com

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS
‘Learn to Square Dance’ Classes are held
by the “Bows & Beaus Square-Dance Club” on
Mondays at 7:30 p.m. First class free; $5 per
class thereafter. Loyola School, 770 Berry Ave.,
Los Altos.
‘Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra’
A friendly monthly gathering for musicians of
all instruments and all levels of skill to play
symphony orchestra music together for fun, no
performance and no pressure. Music provided,
members bring instrument, stand, appetizers to
share and good humor. Register through website. Sundays, Jan. 27-June 30, 2-5 p.m. $10/
session or $25/three sessions. Los Altos Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave, Los Altos. Call
650-793-2218. www.tacosv.com
Foothill College July-Start Summer
Session Registration Foothill College’s
“July-Start” summer session runs July 1-Aug. 11.
Register online through June 30 at www.foothill.
edu. Online and on-campus classes are available.
Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos
Hills. Call 650-949-7325. www.foothill.fhda.edu/
reg/summer13.php
KMVT Youth Summer Camps KMVT Community Television in Mountain View offers studio
production and claymation camps for middle
school students ages 10-14. Camps are one week
long and held every winter break, spring break
and summer. Runs through August 16, 10 a.m.-4
p.m. $325. KMVT Community Television, 1400
Terra Bella Ave., Suite M, Mountain View. Call
650-968-1540. www.kmvt15.org/workshops/
youth.htmlwww.kmvt
Life Drawing Open Studio In these ongoing, year-round drop-in classes, participants can
draw from live models. No formal instruction,
work with other students and artists. Bring
own supplies. Option to purchase punch card
for 10 sessions. Mondays are Short/Med Pose;
Wednesdays, Long Pose. See website for more
info. Running until December 30, Mondays and
Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m. $7 per session/$60 for
10 sessions. Community School of Music and
Arts at Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle,
Mountain View. www.arts4all.org/study/onsite/lifedrawing.htm
Princess Dance Camp For ages 6-8. At each
themed mini-camp dancers will have a dance
class with a professional teacher, do a craft, play
games and listen to stories, and have a snack.

CLUBS/MEETINGS
Charity-of-the-Month Knit & Crochet
Club Inaugural meeting of a new club dedicated
to making items for charity. Participants will make
squares to be joined into afghans for homeless
shelters and nursing homes. Tuesdays, April
9-Sept. 10, 3-5 p.m. Free. Los Altos Library program room, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.
Call 650-948-7683. sccl.org

COMMUNITY EVENTS
Summer Outdoor Movie Night Series
The city of Mountain View is hosting a series of
outdoor movie screenings this summer. Popcorn
and light refreshments will be served. All movies
begin at 8:30 p.m. or when dark enough outside.
Please bring a blanket or lawn chair for seating.
The series is co-sponsored by the City of Mountain
View Recreation Division and Youth Advisory
Committee. Movie Night schedule: Friday, July 12
at Cuesta Park - “Madagascar 3” Friday, July 19 at
Sylvan Park - “Antz” Friday, July 26 at Eagle Park
- “Wreck it Ralph” Friday, August 2 at Stevenson
Park - “Shrek” Friday, August 9 at Whisman Park
- “Dr. Suess’ The Lorax” Friday, August 16 at Rengstorff Park - “Hotel Translyvania” Free. Mountain
View. Call 650-903-6410. www.mountainview.
gov/city_hall/comm_services/recreation_programs_and_services/community_events/summer_outdoor_movie_night_series.asp

DANCE
‘Roll Up The Rug’ The MVLA Adult School is
offering a five-week summer social dance class
that includes swing, salsa, mambo, merengue
and nightclub two-step. Singles and couples
welcome. Class instructors are Ellen Murray and
Gene Esswein. The sign-up deadline is June 13.
Mondays, June 17-July 15, 7:30-9 p.m. $35/person. Mountain View Recreation, 201 S. Rengstorff
Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-940-1333. www.
mvlaae.net
Belly Dancing and World Music Night A
belly dancer, Etain, will perform at 8:30 p.m. as
part of Morocco’s “World Music Night.” Saturdays, June 1-29, 5 p.m.-midnight. Free. Morocco’s
Restaurant, 873 Castro St., Mountain View. Call
650-968-1502. www.moroccosrestaurant.com
Circus Dance Camp, ages 3-5 At each
themed mini-camp dancers will have a dance
class with a professional teacher, do a craft, play
games and listen to stories, as well as have a
snack. (Another session is scheduled for kids ages
6-8 from July 16-July 18, 1-3 p.m.) July 16-18,
10 a.m.-noon. $85. For the Love of Dance, 2483
Old Middlefield Way Suite B, Mountain View. Call
650-861-0650. www.fortheloveofdancemv.com
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‘WILD WITH HAPPY’
TheatreWorks presents a new play, “Wild With Happy,” by award-winning playwright Colman Domingo. Domingo also stars in this comedy, in which a struggling
black actor rejects normal rituals of grief and finds himself on a rapturous road trip
with his mother’s ashes. June 5 through 30, 8 p.m. $23-$73. Mountain View Center
for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. www.theatreworks.org

View Senior Center is hosting its 24th Annual
Summer Picnic. A ticket will get attendees lunch
(vegetarian option is available) and a raffle ticket.
Picnic games for fun or to win raffle tickets. July 2,
11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. $4 advance; $6 day of picnic.
Rengstorff Park BBQ area, 266 Escuela Ave.,
Mountain View. Call 650-903-6330.
Picture Book Story Time Story Time at Linden Tree, every Friday and Saturday from 11-11:30
a.m., is ideal for preschoolers, kindergartners or
any children ages three to six. Titles are selected
from both classic favorites and new books. See
website for weekly themes. May 3-July 6, Free.
Linden Tree Books, 265 State St., Los Altos. Call
650-949-3390. www.lindentreebooks.com
Summer Concert Series Linden Tree Books
hosts their summer concert series, featuring
special guests on Wednesday mornings. Attending families can donate new books, which will be
given to Reading Partners, a local literacy organization. June 19-August 14, 10:30-11 a.m. Free.
Linden Tree Books, 265 State St., Los Altos. Call
650-949-3390. www.lindentreebooks.com

Free Total Control Pelvic Health Class
Introductory Session Classes that combine
education and gentle exercise, taught by El
Camino Hospital therapists who have undergone
specialized training, can help strengthen muscles
to achieve a strong pelvic core, flatter abs and
improved bladder control. Call to register; space
is limited. Sessions will be held May 22, June 26,
July 24, August 28, September 25 and December
11, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. El Camino Hospital Park
Pavilion Second Floor, 2400 Grant Road , Mountain View. www.elcaminohospital.org

FAMILY AND KIDS

LIVE MUSIC

24th Annual Summer Picnic The Mountain

Chris Cucuzza Flamenco guitarist Chris Cucuz-

EXHIBITS

EDRC Support Group This group is designed
to offer support and local resources to family and
friends who have a loved one suffering from an
eating disorder. Groups are open/drop-in and
confidential. Held twice per month, every second
and fourth Saturday of the month. June 22-28,
9:30-11 a.m. Free. El Camino Hospital, 2500
Grant Road, Conference Room A, Mountain View.
Call 408-356-1212. www.edrcsv.org
Food Addicts in Recovery Weekly meeting
on Sunday evenings. Open to all who want to
stop eating addictively. 7-8:30 p.m. St. Marks
Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. www.
foodaddicts.org
Silicon Valley Awake Sleep Support
Group Priscilla Sarinas, a Palo Alto Medical
Foundation doctor, will talk about sleep apnea
and answer questions regarding diagnosis and
treatment. The event will also feature a vendor
for new CPAP Respironics equipment. July 2,
7-8:15 p.m. Free. PAMF Mountain View, 701 East
El Camino Real, 3rd floor conference room, A/B,
Mountain View. Call 650-934-7380. www.pamf.
org/healtheducation/supportgroups/

TALKS/AUTHORS
Intel’s Justin Rattner Justin Rattner is a
corporate vice president and the chief technology officer (CTO) of Intel Corporation. He directs
Intel’s global research efforts and is also responsible for funding academic research worldwide.
John Markoff will lead a conversation with Rattner
at the Computer History Museum. Register online.
July 10, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Computer History
Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View.
www.computerhistory.org/events
Sahar Delijani at Books Inc. Sahar Delijani shares “Children of the Jacaranda Tree,” a
novel that follows three generations of men and
women in post-revolutionary Iran. July 10, 7
p.m. Free. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain
View. Call 650-428-1234. www.booksinc.net/
event/2013/07/19/month/all/all/1
Sara Gran at Books Inc. Author Sara Gran
shares her sequel, “Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway,” a mystery set in San Francisco.
July 8, 7 p.m. Free. Books Inc., 74 Town & Country
Village, Palo Alto. Call 650-321-0600. www.
booksinc.net/event/2013/07/19/month/all/all/1
Technology and Society Committee
Luncheon Forum Al Globus, a senior research
engineer for Human Factors Research and Technology at San Jose State University at the NASA
Ames Research Center, describes what a mission
to capture and relocate a 500-ton asteroid for
analysis in the 2025 timeframe might entail. July
9, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch is $12. Hangen Szechuan Restaurant, 134 Castro St., Mountain View.
Call 650-969-7215. tian.greens.org/TASC.shtml

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project valued at $500.00 or more
in labor and materials. State law also
requires that contractors include their
license numbers on all advertising.
Check your contractorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status at
www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB
(2752). Unlicensed persons taking
jobs that total less than $500.00
must state in their advertisements
that they are not licensed by the
Contractors State License Board.

CAROL DESIGNS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 579037
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Carol Designs, located at 1810 Van
Buren Cir., Mt. View, CA 94040, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of
the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
CAROL LANGSTON
1810 Van Buren Cir.
Mt. View, CA 94040
Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to
transact business under the fictitious
business name(s) listed herein.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on May 30, 2013.
(MVV June 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013)

FEELING GOOD INSTITUTE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 579255
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Feeling Good Institute, located at 2660
Solace Place, Suite A, Mountain View,
CA 94040, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of
the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
MAOR KATZ
520 Franklin St.
Mountain View, CA 94041
Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to
transact business under the fictitious
business name(s) listed herein.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 6, 2013.
(MVV June 14, 21, 28, July 5, 2013)

ThinkJelly
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 579875
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
ThinkJelly, located at 1236 Vicent Dr.
Apt. C, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
SUSHMA Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SOUZA
1236 Vicente Dr. Apt. C
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed herein on 06/19/2013.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 21, 2013.
(MVV June 28, July 5, 12, 19, 2013)

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